Anti-choice Movement Must Control Vigilantes

January 05, 1995|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

May Dec. 30, 1994, day of the second Boston massacre, be ever remembered as a day of infamy -- a day when another loose cannon of the anti-choice movement fired, killing two women and wounding five more persons.

This domestic terrorism must be condemned by all Americans, regardless of religious and political persuasion. A loose cannon set himself up as judge, jury, and executioner of Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols, truly vigilante (in)justice at its nadir.

Sooner or later, if this violence continues, some anti-choice zealot will end up killing a pregnant woman and that which they want to protect most -- her fetus. What a bitter irony that could be for the anti-choicers, and as long as they take pot shots at any woman in an abortion clinic, this could happen. As it stands, the loose cannon of Boston aborted two lives of people who were not involved in the procedure itself.

Anti-choice organizations are inviting government surveillance of their activities if they don't secure their lunatic fringe and condemn soundly such attacks along with the rest of civilized society. This includes the Roman Catholic Church and all other religious denominations that oppose a woman's right to choose.